History Today

Hugh Dunthorne on how bowls, billiards, skating and other pastimes shed light on the society and culture of the Dutch Golden Age.

Tony Judt argues that the new cultural and economic themes taken up by historians of modern Europe have left Marxism as only one of several competitors in Clio's marketplace.

Akbar Ahmed looks at the legacy of a Moorish past for the present Spain.

Maurice Keen describes how, in the years around the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 Robin Hood emerged as the legendary hero of the common people of England.

Robert Service looks at how Gorbachev's revolution has left an open agenda for Soviet historians.

Bovver boys in Athens and Rome? Apparently so, according to Robert Garland, who uncovers tales from life and legend to show how high jinks could turn to blows in the classical world.

Annette Bingham on the discovery of a complex military defence system on Crete

A new tourist attraction in the nineteenth-century restored wine vaults by the Tower of London.

Babbage’s Difference Engine and the mechanical pre-history of computing.